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The North, the South, the Border States in 1861

The Union included the states of Maine, New York, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Indiana, California, Nevada, and Oregon. Abraham Lincoln was their President.

The Confederacy included the states of Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia. Jefferson Davis was their President.

Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri were called Border States.

Stonewall, Arizona … meh.

Phoenix, Ariz., was founded in 1865 by a former Confederate officer who had started farming there after Southern forces were chased out in 1862. He had tried to name the community “Stonewall” after rebel Gen. Stonewall Jackson, but was overruled by other settlers.

Life Expectancy

If born at the beginning of the American Civil War, you were expected to live to the ripe old age of 44. Today, it’s closer to 80.

Memphis….

The Battle of Memphis in June 1862 was entirely a naval battle fought on the Mississippi River, which residents watched from the shoreline. The Union fleet of gunboats sank or captured all but one of eight Confederate riverboats, leaving the fortified city of Vicksburg, Miss., the only rebel strongpoint left on the river.

WWII surprises….

RUSSIA 11,000,000 SOLDIERS DEAD OR MISSING.
OF RUSSIA’S WAR DEATHS, 10,000,000 WERE CIVILIANS.
BRAZIL LOST 1,000 TOTAL THAT WERE ALL CIVILIANS.
GERMANY SUFFERED 4,200,000 TOTAL DEAD.
JAPAN SUFFERED 2,350,000 TOTAL DEAD.
2.5% OF THE WORLD’S TOTAL POPULATION DIED IN WWII, OR ANYWHERE FROM 62,000,000 TO 78,000,000 MILLION DEAD.
20,000,000 DIED FROM DISEASE AND FAMINE.

All in the numbers….

PERCENTAGE OF COMBATANTS WHO DIED IN A MAJOR CONFLICT.
* WAR OF INDEPENDENCE: 2 PERCENT (1 IN 50)

• WAR OF 1812: 0.8 PERCENT (1 IN 127)

• INDIAN WARS: 0.9 PERCENT (1 IN 106)

• MEXICAN WAR: 2.2 PERCENT (1 IN 45)

• CIVIL WAR: 6.7 PERCENT (1 IN 15)

• SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR: 0.1 PERCENT (1 IN 798)

• WORLD WAR I: 1.1 PERCENT (1 IN 89)

• WORLD WAR II: 1.8 PERCENT (1 IN 56)

• KOREAN WAR: 0.6 PERCENT (1 IN 171)

• VIETNAM WAR: 0.5 PERCENT (1 IN 185)

• PERSIAN GULF WAR: 0.03 PERCENT (1 IN 3,162)

Did you know….

The principal weapon of the war and the one by which 80 percent of all wounds were produced was a single-shot, muzzle-loading rifle in the hands of foot soldiers.

Arthritis? Really….

During the American Civil War, the diseases most prevalent were dysentery, typhoid fever, malaria, pneumonia, arthritis, and the acute diseases of childhood, such as measles, mumps, and malnutrition.

Mmmm.

There were 6,000,000 cases of disease in the Federal armies, which meant that, on an average, every man was sick at least twice.